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articulation2 CONSTRUCTSArticulation theoryHALL · CONTINGENT LINKAGECourse articulationROKSA · CREDIT TRANSFER

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Cultural studies and sociology

the contingent linking of distinct ideological or social elements into a unity that could have been made differently.

In cultural studies, articulation, in the meaning Stuart Hall developed from Gramsci and Laclau, is the contingent linking of distinct ideological or social elements into a unity that has no necessary belonging. A political position, an identity, or a discourse is held together by a connection that could have been made differently, or broken and rearticulated, rather than by any essential bond. Hall's interview On Postmodernism and Articulation works through this double meaning of articulation as both uttering and joining. The referent is a theory of how meanings and forces are joined and disjoined in struggle, not a vocal gesture, a bone joint, or a curriculum plan.[1]

Unit
A linkage between social or ideological elements that could have been joined otherwise
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Traced through discourse and conjunctural analysis rather than quantified, by reading how elements are joined and disarticulated in a given moment

Education policy

Alignment of curricula across levels

In education, articulation is the coordinated alignment of curricula across levels or institutions so that a student's completed coursework carries forward: an articulation agreement specifies how credits earned at one college count toward a program at another. The aim is a smooth pathway, for example from a two-year to a four-year institution, with minimal loss of credit on transfer. Roksa and Keith's study of state articulation policies found that their main function is to protect credits rather than to raise transfer rates. The referent is an administrative alignment of programs and credits, not a speech gesture, a skeletal joint, or an ideological linkage.[2]

Unit
A credit or course mapped from one institution's program onto another's
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Evaluated by transfer rates, credit loss on transfer, and time to degree, as in longitudinal studies of state articulation policies

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References

  1. Hall, S. (1986). On postmodernism and articulation: An interview with Stuart Hall (L. Grossberg, Ed.). Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10(2), 45–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/019685998601000204
  2. Roksa, J., & Keith, B. (2008). Credits, time, and attainment: Articulation policies and success after transfer. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 30(3), 236–254. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373708321383

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